I found this on the website of the European Space Agency. Doesn’t say if these are the planes tracked within 24hrs, 1 cycle around earth or the whole time it has been up but it sure has some nice coverage. Makes me wonder about a new antenna
Aircraft positions picked up by ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite, using an experimental Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) receiver. These signals are regularly broadcast from aircraft, giving flight information such as speed, position and altitude. All aircraft entering European airspace are envisaged to carry ADS-B in the coming years.
Proba-V has picked up upwards of 25 million positions from more than 15 000 separate aircraft. There are roughly 20 000 aircraft worldwide from which the DLR German Aerospace Center and SES team has captured more than 25 million positions. The team has identified more than 22 000 unique callsigns, identifying more than 15 000 aircraft by their unique International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) addresses (one aircraft can share a callsign with others, depending on the flight route).
On the ESA site you can also find a nice High-res(1024x2048) version of the picture as well.
OhhNeal73:
I found this on the website of the European Space Agency. Doesn’t say if these are the planes tracked within 24hrs, 1 cycle around earth or the whole time it has been up but it sure has some nice coverage. Makes me wonder about a new antenna
http://i.imgur.com/CAREfWs.png
Aircraft positions picked up by ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite, using an experimental Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) receiver. These signals are regularly broadcast from aircraft, giving flight information such as speed, position and altitude. All aircraft entering European airspace are envisaged to carry ADS-B in the coming years.
Proba-V has picked up upwards of 25 million positions from more than 15 000 separate aircraft. There are roughly 20 000 aircraft worldwide from which the DLR German Aerospace Center and SES team has captured more than 25 million positions. The team has identified more than 22 000 unique callsigns, identifying more than 15 000 aircraft by their unique International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) addresses (one aircraft can share a callsign with others, depending on the flight route).
On the ESA site you can also find a nice High-res(1024x2048) version of the picture as well.
Time to buy a weather balloon to increase reception!
Cheers!
LitterBug
Did they use a Raspberry Pi+ Dongle based receiver?
The article that I read presented these numbers as the totals from the two years that it has been operational. It seems a lot less impressive when you look at it like that.